/diy/ builds a pergola

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Posts in place.

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More posts. The ones at the back are bolted into the retaining wall by the way.

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Rafter timbers going up. Screwed together with big dick screw/bolts.

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More rafter timbers. Double laminated beams for extra strength in the middle.

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Infill timbers and some decorative bits along with a stringer to carry the roofing under the house gutter. Also some paint and filler and shit.

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A shitty photo of the almost completed thing. I'll take a better one in the morning. Still needs some fill and paint work but it's pretty much there and is comfy as fuck. Thinking about getting some clear vinyl roll up sheeting for the sides to close it off if it's windy or whatever but shits expensive.

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it crowds the house, making it looked cramped, and lose value. i would've gone for a walmart-type gazebo kit, $90 new, $15 used, which can go up or down as needed, and makes no permanent changes to the property.

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>>1078784
Nice job, OP.
But with that roofing material, is it really still a pergola?
Unless you'll be sitting under it in the rain, I'd suggest you lose the corrugated stuff, and train some wisteria or a similar plant.
Pic related is my old roommate's pergola.

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>>1078793
Here it is years ago, when it was MUCH shaggier.

wait... why would you bury a gluelam? shit is gonna rot out

>>1078793
I guess it's not really a pergola but whatever I want to keep the rain off my head. I'm going to put some trellis up the posts and train ivy up there anyway.

>>1078853
It's treated timber, it'll last for fucking ever.

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>>1078790
Nah man this is New Zealand, people cream themselves over outdoor living, plus

>House in New Zealand
>Losing value

Top kek the property market is out of control here. The only way we could afford a house was to build the entire thing ourselves.

>>1078777
Looks nice
>>1078790
It does look a little cramped but who cares
>>1078793
Is right, the roofing material kinda detracts

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Here you can see where it buts up to the fascia and the roofing runs under the gutter so it won't leak in that gap. The whole thing has a 40mm ish fall on it anyway. Also not attaching it to the house means we give a fuck you to council consent and plans.

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>>1078921
Whups spoke too soon, I thought it was some kind of sheet metal but the translucent material looks good

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Last pic, we still need to paint the patio and put a gutter and downpipe on the end of it because it's fucking loud when it rains with the water dumping off the edge into the garden.

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>>1078777
OP, not to rain on your parade, because you did an excellent job, but you dun goofed.

Your posts, pressure treated or not, will rot out because they are buried in concrete. Treated will just last a few years longer. You're looking at 5 years until they start to fail. It's not dangerous by any means, even wobbly pergolas are hard to knock down.

In 5 to 10 years when you have to replace the posts use pic related and try to keep water away from the posts.

Nice job and all but it's not the first time I've seen a good pergola go bad due to the improper posting.

>>1078983
I know what you mean but the soil is really rocky and well drained and we never really get soaking downpours. We also put screed around the post hole once it had dried.

If it does rot then yeah ill just saw the rotten part out and put a bracket in to hold it. But it will probably be fine, I have seen plenty of non treated posts down here that are 20-30 years old and still sound as fuck.

>>1078983
took mine 25 to fail, but ok

Looks good OP I might have to build one!

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>>1078778
I've seen it multiple times now that posts are stuck directly into concrete.

Doesn't anybody use pic related?
Is there no wood rot in american concrete?

>>1078777
Fellow kiwi DIYer here.

Gonna go ahead and assume you're in Auckland based on the yard size. Nice job, no doubt added a few grand to the place mate

>>1079638
normally you would paint the bottom part in tar, to make it waterproof. this also looks better than the steel connectors. for this kind of construction it will be fine i guess..

>>1079649
Nah, Christchurch. Just a be subdivision. Fuck living in Auckland.

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Got the gutter and downpipe on today. Here are the clips and dropper. Got a 5mm fall over the length so it sheds water pretty well.

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Dug a big ass hole and filled it with rocks because fuck trying to connect this back to my main stormwater lines. That hole is probably 800x500 and the soil below is rocky as fuck so it should drain ok.

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Finished product. The downpipe was a total cunt because of where the dropper sits it is too far out for clips to go on the post and the clips are a bit too wide anyway. So I clipped it onto the retaining wall and up on the rafter and it's solid as fuck.

Keep the thread going O.P
Looks like an ongoing project nd I'd like to see what you end up doing with the "patio" area.

Good work so far

>>1079965
Feeding the gutter into the flower bed ah yeah

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>>1080080
Yeah will do its a bit of an ongoing project this garden. We want to do a koi fish pond under the cherry tree and take out the corner of the retaining wall where the kennel is since the dog doesn't use it and build a small roofed shelter with a little bar to put a spa in tucked in the corner by the fence. The spa part is a bit cost prohibitive at the moment though.

As for the patio, we kinda goofed it a bit because we acid washed it and the neighbours gave us some coloured sealant. But the sealant needed to go on way thicker to cover the paint marks and shit and they didn't give us much, just the leftovers of a can. Turns out you can't paint anything over the top of it so yeah... but bunnings does these indestructible plastic adhesive tiles which actually look pretty nice in a stone effect so I might clean it up a bit and see how those go next weekend.

My mum was down this weekend so she helped edge around the patio with some rocks so the garden won't flood out the patio sincre it is a little low, but the water drains great around it now.

I guess ill keep the thread around until it dies, I kinda like keeping a record of the work I have done, it's fun.

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I also did these small river stone type pavers leading up to the washing line so I don't walk on sharp rocks to hang out washing.

You can vaguely see the outline under the washing line where we are going to put in 6 600x600 pavers tomorrow since mum is down here until Tuesday.